Oh My God It's In The Bone! It's In The Bone!!!

[Bryan]

This is an easy one. What's the worst injury you've ever had? If possible, explain how you did it.

As for me, it was probably when I was riding down this super big hill in Pennsylvania on this tiny little bicycle. I remember flying ahead of my friend on the bike and he said "Slow down, man. I've wrecked on this hill before". Well, I yelled back to him that I was fine.

Let me explain the texture of this road for a second. It was that dusty, loose, sharp gravel type of road. If you slid your foot along, it brought up a bunch of grey dust.

Anyway, seconds after yelling that I was okay, the handlebars started to wobble. Next thing I know, I flip over the front of the bike and slam down on my back, still sliding down the hill, the gravel tearing up my back while the dust went into my open wounds.

The bike came flipping foward, over the top of me, slamming down on my stomach and knocking the wind out of me. When I tried to slow down by doing a standing up kind of move, I just fell foward, now sliding on my stomach and right shoulder until I stopped.

When I got up, I had ripped up the back of my shirt, what was left of it was stuck to me with blood. The front was slightly ripped with blood drops in various places. The shirt was ripped down off of my right shoulder, showing a nasty wound, covered in rocks and dust.

My face had a slight cut below my right eye, but other than that, I was okay. This was from the full soda (in a can) that I was holding. Somewhere in the wreck, the soda hit me in the face, causing the cut.

I bled a small trail of blood from the wreck all the way back to my friends house.

Your turn!

[OmniTense]

I've had two major injuries in my life.

Minor injuries include:
Breaking my elbow into dust three consecutive times in the exact same place.

My two major injuries include getting a playground stake from a slide set impaling my foot. Passed out on that one. I was only about eight at the time. I slid down the slide and the stake was haphazardly sticking up from the ground. It went straight through my bare right foot and came out through the top, damaging a vein. There was a lot of blood.


Second came from falling approx. 20 feet out of a tree.

I was trying to cut some storm-damaged limbs down after a nice F4 ricketed through our county. I had a good old fashioned black and decker Chainsaw up there winding a limb to pieces. If it hadn't had a dead man's switch...well then...I would've been a dead man. The limb I was standing on snapped.

I don't remember thinking anything in particular when I started to fall except that I had to get rid of the chainsaw. I tried to pitch it away from me but it hit the limb that had collapsed and smacked me about the head with the saw.

Both the chainsaw and a large portion of the limb fell on me...add that to the fact that I fell eighteen feet...I went to the hospital for that one lol...


Funny thing! No one knew I had fallen. I tried to walk (stupidly enough) I wasn't thinking clearly. I found that I couldn't move my legs. They would move, but just barely. It's like someone had just switched them off. They would move but not enough to carry me. Or no! It was like I was only slightly attatched to my legs at that point. I felt all floaty(called shock) and none of my muscles worked all that well.

I crawled across our lawn and started launching magnolia burrs at our front door until my father came out and started to cuss me and scream at me. roflmao

I was white as a sheet and he was as red as a beet. He eventually called the ambulance and had me transported in braces to a local hospital.

They said nothing was wrong with my spine...after the doctors had already flipped me like a pancake and X-rayed my legs... *shakes head*

I was unable to walk for an entire month! I have a small chainsaw-shaped scar right under the left side of my jaw.

Boy did I play some Final Fantasy!!
Woot!

X had just come out and I was dosed up on painkillers tripping with Tidus.

rofl lol

I had some messed up dreams...

[Chez Daja]

Let's see...

I once... "accidentally" cut open my right wrist. The thing I cut it on touched the vien, but somehow didn't break it. I still bleed a Hell of a lot because it has sort of cut me in a cross shape. It sort of looked like a reversed crucifix at the time, (although that hadn't been the intention.)
Anyway, I'd been on a series of drugs that night as well, and hadn't sleep in a long time. I ended up falling unconscious for about five minutes, and when I woke up, the bleeding had slowed considerably, although I felt extremely weak. I could've died, but I helped myself to stop the bleeding.

Another time, same type of thing happened, but with more cuts, and in more places, and this time more drugs as well. I collasped for a longer period of time. I also died that time, regardless of my attempts to stop or not.

Let's see... other times...

One time, in school. I was bullied badly, and some kids tripped me up. I fell down. The floor was like this sharp gravelling stuff.

Anyway, long story short, I ended up with my glasses scratched to the point that I couldn't see out of them, my knees and legs fiercely bleeding, my hands and arms pretty much skinned. My whole face was scratched and bloody.
I remember this boy ran up to me and helped me up. I had sprained my ankle, but the worst thing was that the teachers didn't even call my mother.

I've also been in massive car crashes in which I was apparently an inch from dying in, but I was usually lucky and came out with cuts and bruises.


That's what I hate about those car accidents. I don't have any cool scars out of them or anything.

[Storm]

Eeesh... some people here have had some pretty nasty-sounding accidents.

I've actually been quite lucky. I've never had a bad accident, and haven't broken a bone yet... touch wood. Probably now i've said that i'll probably have a killer bin snapping my leg in two at college! XD

The worst thing which happened to me, which could of been serious within a matter of a few inches, was when I was about 10 years old. You know those big pathy things which go over dual carrageways? Well, I was coming back from a bike ride with my friends family, and it started to rain. The breaks on my bike were a bit iffy, so I decided to walk over it on foot, towing my bike beside me. My friends were telling me it'd be much faster if I rode down, pumping the breaks. I told them that my back break didn't work that well, but they said my breaking was fine earlier so i'd be fine. Anyway, they convinced me, so I rode down this wet steep slope, in a famous British springtime downpour, pumping my breaks. Yup, they breaks weren't working well. I was getting closer and closer to the end, so I slammed on my breaks, but nothing kicked in until the last minute, causing my bike to flip over, sending me flying into a ditch, narrowly missing my head on an exposed sewerpipe by about 3 inches. My bike landed on top of me.

I just remember being absolutely terrified, shivering and acheing all over. They all thought it was funny that I had sprained/pulled muscles in my arms, legs and back and that I was covered in bruises and grazes. People can be so cruel...

[Govinda]

I've never really been seriously injured. I've come close a few times - and it's always been entirely my fault

I used to go bike riding a lot in an old country park place near where I live. There's a sort of cross country BMX type track there - lots of very steep hills very close to each other, with paths carved out of the grass. It's a very small area; the hills are packed in very, very tightly, and are all quite high.

So, one day, my friend and I decide to venture up into this maze of little hills. I, being the more adventurous of the two, decide that it would be fun to weich myself down a very steep and tall one on my dad's packed out mountain bike. The slope was about 80 degrees, almost vertical, with a little ditch at the bottom.

Oh, how I flew! Landed with a bump on the bottom of the slope, pumping the brakes and still picking up speed. Dodged a brick, went into the little ditch and was then thrown 2 metres into the air by the slope that led out of it. I was airborne and screaming. I landed in a bush a few seconds later, fell backwards, and my bike followed. So, there I was, lying in some mud in a bush with a bike on top of me, laughing at my friend shouting abuse about my stupidity. It was then that I noticed the huge tree I had missed by about a handlebar's length. I had only a few cuts and scrapes; I wonder what would've happened if I'd hit that tree head-on?

My family are better at injuries than me. My brother has had a golf club accidentaly smacked into his forehead (it went right in, it was horrible), thrown himself through glass doors, nearly lost his fingers twice in car doors; father has crashed a car into the sea, broken his arm in the same eleven places three times, crashed motorbikes with my mother on them...

Well, my brother's accident prone and my dad can't drive, I guess.

Some of you guys have had some right shitty accidents....trees and chainsaws? Ouch. Literally, I should imagine.

[U2Girl1966]

This is mild compared to some of y'alls, but three years ago I was standing on a step ladder in the stockroom at work.

I lost my balance, fell and broke my right ankle. This was at the very start of Retail Hell Season (aka Christmas). I spent a week in a plaster cast and seven in a walking cast.

And yes, plaster itches. A LOT!

[jenova33]

well mine isn' as bad as many of these... but.....

in 5th grade we were doing the fitness training. You know, the mile and stuff like that. anyway, as we were near the end, probably at about 40-42 meters, with me in first place, one of those bishes tripped me coz she was the "top fitness girl" in our class and she was mad that i was gonna win. so i fell and slid across the pavement, luckly breaking nothing, but the pavement decided to dig a giant gash into my stomach.

another one thats short is i was playing at the park and this wa about 3 years ago.... and we were playing tag. well the ground was really sandy so i anded falling and scraping up the whole right side of my body. i looked half meaty, lol. anyway... i never broke anything... but yeah.

oh yeah, and i almost died falling down the stairs of a concert hall at six flags, lol.

thats all

[Yuuki]

My worst injury was just a twisted leg.
Much like jenova33 it was during one of those fitness training thingies but not in the same grade mine was in 6th not a big difference but whatever. I was playing soccer when someone was doing that thing where they steal the ball but she had bad aiming and hit my leg instead I feel over and twisted my leg badly.

Originally Posted by jenova33

I fell and slid across the pavement, luckily breaking nothing, but the pavement decided to dig a giant gash into my stomach.

Nowhere near as bad what jenova33 probably went trough still I don’t get in many accidents or get many injuries so my worst is something small. One good thing about it was that I didn't have to bother going through fitness training untill I healed it was about a month and a half.

[Fishie]

This is an interesting thread. I'm an athlete and I love playing sports. If I was ever on a strandeds island with a few friends all I need is a soccer ball or a football and I'm good to go. However, I've broken and sprained some body parts several times.

When I was about 13 or so I was in boxing, and I was facing this one kid around my age maybe a few years older and as we were boxing it out, this guy was a challenge. He had some good swings and had great stamina after taking some major blows to the face. But as the rounds went by I could just feel my forehead hurting and my face was literally getting messed up. This guy was no joke and I could just feel my head pounding in pain. At the final round I really gave him all of my energy and I won the match. On the bad side though, I had to go to the hospital and get stiches on my head and was told to rest due to my head hurting. I wouldn't consider this breaking a bone though, just practically getting my ass kicked.

I've been in soccer for a long time and two years ago when I first came to high school, I tried out for the soccer team. I made the team and we won a few matches, but when we played one day against this really good team and when I say good they haven't lost a match the whole season. Before tournment began, we played them and we got our butts kicked. During the game though, as the ball was heading toward our way of the field, I manage to take it from the guy and go towards their goalie. As I kicked it one of the guys on the other team tried to block the kick and as they he to block it his foot tripped me and I twisted my ankle and his ass fell on top of me while I was falling down to the ground. I had to have crutches for about eight weeks and sit out the rest of the season....

[OmniTense]

Hey, lighten up!

Falling, with a chainsaw and a ninety pound Maple limb, 18 feet and being smacked by the dull end of the blade sounds a lot worst than what it entails! certainly isn't as bad as some of you guys have had it; Storm almost went Parapalegic, Chez almost bled out!

The only thing that bitched my day was that I couldn't walk for a while and for that I had Final Fantasy and big, mutant, titan drugs and lots of them!

A month straight of Final Fantasy X and drug-induced dreams is Disneyland compared to your stories.

[Plastik Assassin]

I have had several broken bones and such, but this is the messy one.

I was about 8 years old, climbing into my grandmothers minivan. It was like a 1990 Ford Aerostar with one of the sliding doors on the side. As I was climbing into that part of the van, I had my hand braced on the inside of the open passenger front door. As soon as my hand was on the hinges for that front door, my grams unknowingly slammed that freakin thing. My right pointer finger, and also my middle finger, were crushed inside the hinges...

First off, I didn't feel a thing. Then I saw my skin peeled halfway down, with my finger bones hanging out the top, squirting blood all over the van like a fire hose... I practically passed out from the sight of it. My fingers were leaking like a sieve...

Long story short.. ER, like 150 stitches, a cast, and a whole lot of pain killers and I was good. I still have some pretty mean scarring though. My middle finger nail on my right hand is still in 2 separate sections though...

[Evangel]

*Claps hands* Alrighty, time to tell my life changing injury.

Well, it was about five years ago during a school break. My brother and I were up late wrestling and rough-housing when he body slammed me on our couch. Immediately, I rolled off and put my hand over the spot on my head were I wacked it on the arm. Fortunately for me, this arm was cushioned... not. The cotton or whatever that was in there got worn away and all that was left was wood. Now, while I was rolling on the floor, my brother was telling me "Oh, I didn't trow you THAT hard." And that was when I moved my hand. Yep, I cracked my head open and the blood was flowin'. I didn't freak out much, but I was panicking some. So, we ran up stairs and got in the tub, woke up everyone in the house (@ midnight, might I add). Soon, the blood stopped gushing and everything was fine. Funny thing is, I think I got smarter.

[OmniTense]

I think someone...(dunno who) Misinterpreted what I meant by my previous post...

lol

I really did mean it wasn't all that bad...

Everybody was all like "eww chainsaws"
My story sounded like all that...and it wasn't
I was lucky and I was not ragging on peoples stories...These guys had had gruesome stories! Some of them I didn't really want to read because I tend to get a little squimish.

So I'm sorry, to whom it may concern (lol my Mysterious Stranger detractor)

But I do not rag, anybody...least of all those who have been injured. You are in err.

(damn me and my easily misinterpreted words)